NORTH EAST COMMUNITY RESTORATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (NECORD)

Project Area
The Project is being implemented in all the 8 districts (Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Vavuniya, Mannar, Trincomalee, Batticaloa, Ampara) of the Northern and Eastern Provinces and covers both cleared and uncleared areas. It is operated in Trincomalee.

The project contributes to the Government’s overall relief and rehabilitation programme for the North East by improving the living conditions and well being of communities that have been affected by the conflict, particularly communities that contain significant proportions of internally displaced people.

project areas of NECORD Project

Scope
The Project is implementing a range of complementary activities in the project area to ensure that the people living there, whether original occupants or resettled or relocated, experience a broad improvement in their livelihoods and in their access to services, utilities and income-generation opportunities.

Sectors and Activities 

Agriculture
Education
Fisheries
Health
Income Generation
Minor Roads
Shelter Water
Supply and Sanitation

Source

Total Cost
(US $ Mn)
ADB
25.0
OPEC Fund    
4.0
Germany
2.5
Netherlands
0.5
Beneficiaries
1.0
GOSL 
7.0
Total   
40.0

Concept
The Project has two broad components:
1.Larger scale anchor subprojects
2.Smaller scale community-level subprojects

Anchor sub-projects:
 Typically investments that benefit a broad cross-section of each district’s population.
Implementation largely through conventional Government Contracting arrangements.

Community Sub – Projects:

Typically investment for individuals or specific communities
Implemented by local organizations and communities as implementing partners assisted by service providers (Government agencies at the province, district, and divisional level: project field staff: and NGOs).

 

Critical Factors

Balance
The need to ensure that the Project’s activities and investments are reasonably distributed between or among, communities, relocated/ resettled original communities in cleared and uncleared areas, urban and rural areas, and others. The Project gives particular attention to those who are most vulnerable, in particular the disabled and households headed by widows or single women.

Flexibility
The need to adjust the Project as the fluid security situation requires, as populations move
in response to security events or changes in Government policies and as other projects develop.

Process Approach
The Project is being implemented using a process approach, to provide the flexibility needed to refine and adjust scope and methodology in the fluid situation that exists in the Project area.

 

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